Meh, I think it was a diversity thing. There weren't any black moderators, and there weren't any morbidly obese moderators. I think qntmfred was feeling pressure from the NAACP and the NAAFA, respectively.

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"but it just so happens that you didn't like me before you were a mod, and you still don't now - and that's basically the only reason you would ever want me suspended "

Despite what you think, I don't dislike you, John. And I never said anything about suspending you-- but come on man...be sensible here. The fact of the matter is you have a history of this stuff around here - it's a cycle that has repeated itself over and over. What you're seeing here in this thread is just evidence that others have noticed this cycle, and want to avoid going back to that dark place.And as ~ as it sounds, I believe I have a duty on this website to try to make sure the other users have a good experience here. In the realm of reality, your goal to pad the hell out of this place takes away from the good experience of other users.]

"but I only confine 98% of my padding to the EUPHALO thread, so again, I'm not seeing what the issue is"

Your padding is less than 98%, I can assure you that.

I would say that 75-80% of your padding is contained in there, but when you put up nearly 100 pad posts a day, that's still 20-25 pad posts, which is still more than what most people post in a given day.

You're right, most of your padding is done in the EUPHALO thread, but you still do a lot of fucking padding outside of it. I know that compared to how much you pad in the EUPHALO thread that it seems like such a small amount of padding by you is done outside of the EUPHALO thread to you. But to us, that "small" amount of padding done outside of the EUPHALO thread is a lot.

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"but it just so happens that you didn't like me before you were a mod, and you still don't now - and that's basically the only reason you would ever want me suspended "

So, you think the only reason why EMCE would want to suspend you is because he doesn't like you? I'm actually surprised to hear you say that you think EMCE hates you. Because to be honest, he seems to show you a lot of respect, and he even screws around with you when you aren't padding. Maybe he sent you some PMs, maybe some shit went down in PP that I don't know about.

But are you not seeing a common denominator here?

You think everyone who doesn't like your padding just doesn't like you. We're telling you what the problem is, but you just say "no, it's not a problem." You've had an account suspended for spamming the hell out of here/padding, it sounds like you're the reason why PP doesn't allow padding anymore, and you've had people in the past complain about your shit. How can everyone else be the problem when you've had/have multiple accounts here, you've lost at least one account here, people have complained about your shit? The problem isn't us, it's YOU.

I might be seen as a BubbleBobble sympathizer for speaking calmly and reasonably about a user that I have seen to be nothing more than a good-humored and occasionally-annoying fervent poster, but at least I can engage in this discussion without hurling insults.

He posts a lot. He doesn't pad in topics worthwhile of serious discussion, he doesn't typically detract threads into meaningless bile arguments like some of the more aggressive users in this thread, and the only aggression he could ever be accused of having is meager, defensive responses to the strangely hate-driven crusade against him. He is harmless. Many of the users posting against him in this thread are far more cancerous and have proven more detrimental to the Chit Chat atmosphere than the accused.

I like kiljadn as much as I could without even really knowing him, but when you get on the subject of BubbleBobble the hatred seems to come pouring out, and the source of it is just not something I think you've expressed with any clarity. Yeah, maybe he should tone down the padding in a couple of key threads--some of them exist clearly for padding--but I don't think he gets in the way of how Chit Chat operates, and I don't think he's any kind of malcontent. Were he more malicious and his padding leaking into popular discussion threads I think you'd have a case, but as is...

Fuck why am I writing this at 4AM on a weekday, FUCK BubbleBobble LETS END HIM.

it's retarded cause 1) I barely do shit compared to other forums on the internet2) other people on this same TWW actually troll and do worse crap than I do3) you're all boring and don't provide any quality content yourself; ESPECIALLY kiljadn and merbig

The only problem I have is that BubbleBobble's pad sprees at night bump his old worthless threads and cover the front page with unreadable garbage. I don't care about his padding in EUPHALO, or his padding in general, but when it removes good content to the second+ page I have a problem. There's been several times now when I've looked for a thread that was getting good yesterday only to not see it anywhere, and then I have to see if going to page two is worth the effort.

A lot of tww works for a living now, and I'm sure this is what haoppens for a lot of posters. This is also why tww is not active at night.

Well, right before this thread was started, you were going at it again. I think EMCE hit the nail on the head when he said that there were a few people also helping you. But since this thread started, you've chilled out.

Are we just going to have to bump this thread every so often when you start going out of control?

Before this thread was created you were beginning to get out of control.

In case you didn't know this, your opinion is skewed. It is of your opinion that you aren't out of control. Fair enough. It's you're opinion. But as you've seen, your opinion doesn't quite match up with quite a few of us...

But it's clear that you will never "get" it. That's ok. Eventually you'll lose BubbleBobble like you lost RD.